Acquirement
no.: 1
Author's name: Berle, Adolf A. / Means, Gardiner C.
Title of the work: The modern corporation and private property
Place of publishing: New York
Publisher: Macmillan
Date of publishing: 1932
Edition: 1st
Pages: XIII, 396
Graphics/illustrations: yes
Short content or description: Since this book was published ... social
scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this
crucial part of American economic and social life, which started as
a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public
services like turnpikes and canals ... until the need for limited liability
for investors allowed the creation of the American corporate giants
that we know today.
Library sector: ICOLS
Put in by: the librarians
Acquirement
no.: 2
Author: Marcus, Greil
Title of the work: Lipstick Traces
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 3
Author: Ronell, Avital
Title of the work: The Telephone Book. Technology, Schizophrenia,
Electric Speech
Place of publishing: Lincoln Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date of publishing: 1989
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement no.: 4
Author: Weizenbaum, J.
Title of the work: Computer Power and Human Reason, from Judgment
to Calculation
Place of publishing: San Francisco
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Date of publishing: 1976
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 5
Author: Noble, David F.
Title of the work: The Religion of Technology Publisher: Knopf
Date of publishing: 1997
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement no.: 6
Author: Santillana, Giorgio de / Dechend, Hertha von
Title of the work: Hamlet's Mill. An Essay on Myth and the Frame
of Time
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 7
Author: Garfinkel, S.
Title of the work: Database Nation.The Death of Privacy in the 21st
Century
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
Date of publishing: 2000
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 8
Author: Hine, Thomas
Title of the work: Populuxe
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 9
Author: Attali, J.
Title of the work: Noise
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date of publishing: 1977
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 10
Title of the work: The Beehive Metaphor
Place of publishing: London
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 11
Title of the work: Farmax. Excursions on Density
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 12
Author: Sheldrake, Rupert
Title of the work: Seven Experiments that Could Change the World
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 13
Author: Bush, Vanevar
Title of the work: Science an Endless Frontier
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement no.: 14
Author: Haden-Guest, Anthony
Title of the work: True Colors. The real Life of the Art world
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 15
Author: KŸng, Hans
Title of the work: Freud and the Problem of God
Publisher: Yale University Press Date of publishing: 1990
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement no.: 16
Author: Wells, H. G.
Title of the work: World Set Free
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 17
Author: Bulgakov
Title of the work: Master and Margarita
Publisher: Ardis
Date of publishing: 1995
Edition: Translation by Burgin, Diana and Tiernan O'Connor, Katherine
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 18
Author: Koestler, Arthur
Title of the work: Arrow in the Blue
Date of publishing: 1951
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement
no.: 19
Author: Koestler, Arthur
Title of the work: The Invisible Writing
Date of publishing: 1954
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement no.: 20
Author: Musil, Robert
Title of the work: The Man Without Qualities
Short content or description: see www.amazon.com
Library sector: ICOLS International Department of Present Humiliation
and Future Nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement no.: 21
Author's
name: Tournier, Michel
Title
of the work : Friday or the Other Island
Pages:
200
Place
of publishing: London
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Date
of publishing: 1969
Edition:
2nd
Graphics/illustrations?:
none
Short
content or description: At the age of twenty-two Robinson sets to seek
his
fortune in the new world. On 30th September 1759 the ship in which he
is sailing
is wrecked and he and the ships dog are washed ashore on a pacific island.
They are the sole survivors. Like his namesake he keeps a journal, recording
his hopes and fears, dissappointments and achievements. Then after years
of solitude he is joined by a black man whom he names Friday ... and
there
all resembance to defoe's classic ends.
Library
sector: Department of Missing Links
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 22
Author's
name: Cleaver, Eldridge
Title
of the work: Soul On Ice
Pages:
210
Place
of publishing: New York
Publisher:
Dell Publishing
Date
of publishing: 1968
Edition:
1st
Graphics/illustrations?:
photograph of Eldrige Cleaver on the cover
Short
content or description: Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther minister of
Information and former candidate for the presidency of the United States
on the Peace and Freedom Party Ticket, here writes about the forces
that shaped his life and that moulded the national destiny in Afro American-Anglo
American politics.
Library
sector: Department of Revolutionary Nostalgia
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 23
Author's
name: Bowden, Charles
Title
of the work: Juarez. The laboratory of our future
Pages:
133
Place
of publishing: New York
Publisher:
Aperture
Date
of publishing: 1999
Edition:
1st
Graphics/illustrations?:
plenty, colour pics
Short
content or description: Scarey stuff, the entropic reality for corrupt
drug infested mexican border towns, further exacerbated by first world
economic exploitation of the cheap mexican labour force.
Library
sector: Department of Future Projections
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 24
Author's
name: Mailer, Norman
Title
of the work: Death for the Ladies and other disasters
Pages:
many, one inch thick
Place
of publishing: London
Publisher:
Andre Deutsch limited
Date
of publishing: 1962
Edition:
1st
Graphics/illustrations?:
just concrete poetry
Short
content or description: Being - a run - of poems - short poems —
very short poems - and turns of prose entitled more formally
Library
sector: Department of Dislocated Memory
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 25
Author's
name: Stendhal
Title
of the work: Love
Pages:
327
Publisher:
The Merlin Press
Date
of publishing: 1957
Edition:
1st
Graphics/illustrations?:
no
Short
content or description: Unrequited love and the projection of desire
Library
sector: Department of Dislocated Memory, sub-department: The Disembodied
Wound
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 26
Author's
name: Pope, Alexander
Title of the work: A. Pope
Pages:
50
Place
of publishing: London
Publisher:
Leonard Smithers
Date
of publishing: 1897
Edition:
2nd
Graphics/illustrations?:
Eleven over neuroticised line drawings by Aubrey Beardsley
Short
content or description: Upstairs, downstairs, around and around tightly
bound
curls, and sly eroticism.
Library
sector: International Department of Local Aesthetics
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 27
Author's
name: Humanity, League of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy
Title
of the work: We have not forgotten
Pages:
266
Place
of publishing: Warszawa, Poland
Publisher:
Polonia Publishing
Date
of publishing: 1959
Edition:
1st
Graphics/illustrations?:
B&W lithographic photographs
Short
content or description: Homage to the dead - A warning to the living
Library
sector: Department of Global Disenchantment
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 28
Author's
name: Pilger, John
Title
of the work: A Secret Country
Pages:
409
Place
of publishing: Victoria, Australia
Publisher:
Vintage
Date
of publishing: 1990
Graphics/illustrations?:
no
Short
content or description: A well written account of recent political machinations
and human rights abuse in Australia.
Library
sector: Department of Revolutionary Nostalgia
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 29
Author's
name: Hazan, Marcella
Title
of the work: The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Pages:
722
Place
of publishing: London
Publisher:
Macmillan
Date
of publishing: 1992
Edition:
1st
Graphics/illustrations?:
B&W line illustrations
Short
content or description: Solid no wank Italian cooking, with history,
technique, and clear instruction.
Library
sector: International Department of Local Aesthetics
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 30
Author's
name: Lovins, Amory B. / Hawken, Paul / Lovins, L. Hunter
Title
of the work: Natural Capitalism. The Next Industrial Revolution
Pages:
396
Place
of publishing: London
Publisher:
Earthscan
Date
of publishing: 2000
Edition:2nd
Graphics/illustrations?:
0nly green wave picture on front cover and B&W diagrams
Short
content or description: Examples of sustainable enviromental practise
to maximising resources within a capitalist system of
production
Library
sector: Department of Future Projections, The Green Room.
Put
in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement no.: 31
Author's
name: Iwanczak, Bronia
Title of the work: The Book of Many Fish Sacrifices
Pages: 500
Place of publishing: Sydney
Publisher: ICOLS
Date of publishing: 2002
Edition: 1st
Graphics/illustrations?: photographic
Short content or description: A comprehensive list of our collective
sins and the tuna that goes to market for it.
Library sector: Department of Missing Links, sub-unit of Ethical Estrangement.
Put in by: Bronia Iwanczak
Acquirement
no.: 32
Author's name: More, Thomas
Title of the work: Utopia
Pages: 154
Place of publishing: UK
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of publishing: 1965
Edition: Graphics/illustrations?: none
Short content or description: A book about nowhere and non-sense written
by an assassinated saint.
Library sector: Non-existent thought
Put in by: John Paul Bichard
Acquirement
no.: 33
Author's name:Thurston P. Quinn
Title of the work:Manipulating democracy for fun and profit
Pages:
Place of publishing:Cocos Islands Publisher: Opportunity Press
Publisher:
Date of publishing: 1996 Edition: 2nd
Edition: Graphics/illustrations?: no
Short content or description: Contemporary guide to tax-effective democratic
structures
Library sector: Dept of Global Disenchantment
Put in by: Olivia Quinn
Acquirement
no.: 34
Author's name: Hervé Fischer
Title of the work: Art and marginal communication
Place of publishing: Paris
Publisher: Balland
Date of publishing: 1974
Short content or description: "l love your departments. It reminds me
of my book" (Hervé Fischer)
Library sector: Icols directorate
Put in by: Hervé Fischer
Acquirement no.: 35
Title
of the work: The Office of Utopic Procedures
Pages: 176
Editor:
Sachs, Bernhard
Place
of publishing: Melbourne
Publisher:
West Space Inc.
Date
of publishing: 2002
Graphics/illustrations:
colour plates
Short
content or description: The publication expands and relates to an Office
of Utopic Procedures project at West Space in October 2001. The project
involved setting up a studio/workshop, in which people worked, facilitating
a discussion and accumulation of material concerning the "utopic". The
book documents these discussions and ideas, while adding further comment
and reflection. Amongst many other anonymous contributors, special projects
are represented by texts and artists pages by: J. Abbate, D. Bertoli,
B. Crone/R. McLennan, A. Douglas/J. Dujmovic, K. Huang, R. Ishak, S.
Loughrey, R. McLeish, V. Moeller, T. Nicholson, No-one Is Illegal/Refugee
Action Collective, Ocular Lab, B. Sachs, M. Takasaka, G. Wheeler, Arbeit
ueber Arbeit. Introductory texts by B. Jones, B. Sachs, S. Loughrey,
T. Nicholson. Publication design: Brad Haylock-New Ethic Media.
Library
sector: Umbrella corporation of lost structures
Put
in by: Brett Jones
Acquirement no.: 36
Author: Safran Foer, Jonathan
Title of the work: Everything is Illuminated. A novel
Pages: 288
Place of publishing:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date of publishing: 2002
Illustrations: no
Short content or description: With
only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan
Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have
saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted
by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior,
and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks
in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey
over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. As their adventure
unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather's village,
conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations
across time. Lit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters
in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history. As the
search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until
reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary
power. An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, this is
a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist,
for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate
but necessary tales that link past and future.
Library sector:Icols HQ
Put in by:Suzanne Treister
Acquirement no.: 37
Author's
name: Baird, Davis
Title of the work: Thing Knowledge. A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments
Pages: 294 Publisher: The University of California Press
Date of publishing: 2004
Graphics/illustrations: 23 b/w photographs, 24 line illustrations, 2
tables
Short content or description: Western philosophers have traditionally
concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a
variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental
notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments,
can express knowledge. As he considers numerous intriguing examples,
Davis Baird gives us the tools to "read" the material products of science
and technology and to understand their place in culture. Making a provocative
and original challenge to our conception of knowledge itself, Thing
Knowledge demands that we take a new look at theories of science and
technology, knowledge, progress, and change. Baird considers a wide
range of instruments, including Faraday's first electric motor, eighteenth-century
mechanical models of the solar system, the cyclotron, various instruments
developed by analytical chemists between 1930 and 1960, spectrometers,
and more.
Library sector: Present humiliation and future nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
Acquirement no.: 38
Author's
name: Ohrt, Roberto
Title of the work: Phantom Avantgarde. Eine Geschichte der Situationistischen
Internationale und der modernen Kunst
Pages: 336
Graphics/illustrations: 200 b/w + 16 colour
Short content or description: ÈNiemals werde ich ErklŠrungen abgeben.
Nun bist Du ganz allein mit unseren Geheimnissen.Ç Mit dieser Haltung
hat Guy Debord, der Protagonist der Situationistischen Internationale,
bisher eine genaue Untersuchung dieser Gruppierung verhindert. Sie blieb
daher so unbekannt wie berŸchtigt. Roberto Ohrt legt erstmals eine kritische
Chronologie der Situationistischen Internationale und ihrer Zeit vor,
eine pointierte Geschichte der modernen Kunst seit 1945 in den Bereichen
Malerei, Literatur, Film, Architektur, Aktion. Der Autor spŸrt den Verbindungen
zum spŠten Surrealismus, zum Lettrismus, zu Cobra, den Nouveaux RŽalistes
und der Pop Art nach.
Library sector: Present humiliation and future nostalgia
Put in by: Janos Sugar
